John Sanborn Phillips

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John Sanborn Phillips

Also Known As: "Sanburn"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, IA, United States
Death: 1949 (87-88)
Immediate Family:

Son of Edgar Lewis Phillips and Mary Lavinia Sanborn
Husband of Emma Delia Phillips and Jennie Beale Phillips
Father of Dorothy Sanborn Phillips

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About John Sanborn Phillips

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sanborn_Phillips

John Sanborn Phillips (1861–1949) attended Knox College in Illinois, where he worked on the student newspaper. He met S. S. McClure there and the two went on to found the famous McClure's Magazine in 1893, where he was co-editor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClure's

In 1906, he left McClure's with Ida Tarbell to found The American Magazine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Magazine

His grandson Samuel Huntington (son of Richard Thomas Huntington and Dorothy Sanborn Phillips) was a professor at Harvard and well-known author.

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John Sanborn Phillips's Timeline

1861
July 2, 1861
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, IA, United States
1893
1893
1949
1949
Age 87